Use and Useless

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1952

Date Released

31 Oct 1966

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Twelve Months of Christmas
2. 2Use and Useless
3. 3Artist of the Turf
4. 4Aberfan - The Final Tribute

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Use and Useless. DESCRIPTION: Two hundred years after it was built, a water-powered Forge is restored to working condition. Meanwhile, also in Switzerland, someone else is busy making machines that do absolutely nothing. His exhibition of useless mechanics seems to be a protest against the power of the machine in our society. SHOTLIST: GV water powered forge in Switzerland. GV pan water channel. MS water driving mill wheel. CU cogs turning. MS man carries white hot metal to forge and water operated hammer starts working. MCU hammer working. MCU pan cogs turning. MS pan mill wheel turning. MS ditto. MCU cogs turning. MCU hammer operating. GV pan machines created by Herr Tinguely of Zurich working. MCU ditto. MS Herr Tinguely presses pedal to start machine. Pan up machine working. MS another machine working. MS ditto. MS ditto. MS ditto. MS ditto. CU machine moving to and fro on wheels. MS ditto.

Keywords

Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Demonstrations

Locations

Switzerland

Footage sources

France

Card file number

91716

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

161

Story extras:

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